Fedora 28 upgrade

The following issues are best solved by removing the i686 packages when running on an AMD based system   # dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=28 Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running “dnf –refresh upgrade”. Do you want to continue [y/N]: y negativo17 – Multimedia 226 kB/s | 271 kB 00:01 […]

Windows 10 issues accessing Fedora Samba shares

This problem has frustrated me since mid-2016 after my first Windows-10 upgrade. The Windows-10 machine could not see or connect to my Linux shares no matter what I did. I ended up having to change several things before it finally worked. Linux smb.conf:  ntlm auth = no  lanman auth = Yes client ntlmv2 auth = […]

Fedora 21 to Fedora 22 upgrade

No real issues with this upgrade. I found that the problem with mounting my raid partitions at boot was due to using the wrong format in my /etc/fstab file. Instead of /dev/mapper I needed to use UUID= to specify the partitions. I extracted the UUID values using blkid.

Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 upgrade woes

This upgrade did not go nearly as smoothly as the last one, mostly because NVIDIA’s 343.22 driver no longer supports the 8200 integrated video on my Asus motherboard.  After several failed attempts to revert to the nouveau driver or the 340 NVIDIA driver, I decided to find a newer video card.  I picked up a […]

Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 upgrade

What can I say, this was the smoothest Linux upgrade ever! Postgresql:  run postgresql-setup upgrade. sql-ledger: used setup.pl to upgrade to version 3.0.5, worked after removing a stale Perl DBI module in /usr/local/lib64.